With yet more grim light today, I was glad I had agreed to meet up with a couple of other ‘togs at the gallery we are to exhibit in next July. Robin who runs the gallery and framing workshop also keeps a three legged refugee dog from the former Yugoslavia. As luck would have it, he let her out to greet us. She is so much improved owing to his kind heartedness. Quite how she lost her left foreleg I do not know but she gets about OK on the other three.
So we have two 3 metre walls and one four metre wall to work with along with easels plus table top easels for the window. Now, July does not seem that far away in relative terms with regard to sizing and quantity etc. I hope everyone else thinks the same?
The stroll along to Coffee Link was a pleasure today unlike on Saturday when I struggled to squeeze past hoards of punter looking at seemingly repetitive paella stalls and sickly cake stalls. I do hope this is not the pattern for subsequent ‘Maritime’ weekends.
Seeing, the UOS Photography tutors walk past and familiar security faces from the university reminded us on the impending start of yet another new academic year. I hope the course is successful in take-up this year. I’m looking forward to testing the the drum scanner in the new technician store – I’ll find it strange working with other people around me but I hope the take-up on the scanning service is much improved this year.
Another familiar face walked past twice and on the return trip took time out to talk about commercial photography, yesteryear days at The Evening Star and diminishing day rates. I wonder how many budding students know how badly the sector has been hit and especially the fact that photojournalism these days seems to be an anathema? There is so much reliance on ‘the public’ and fees are are an absolute disgrace given the costs involved setting up a photography business and learning the skills to make images to a brief.
It was somewhat fitting after that depressing talk to walk past the old Evening Star offices and see it reduced to rubble. I wonder what will become of that site? New printing presses? I don’t think so, more like a final edition.
